From: Joram Ragem

Dr Barack Abonyo is my project for the future president of Kenya. I created it here on facebook, and like a virus in the lab, lost control of it, it became a-project-gone-bad, and now I must embrace it again. After all, when the wood insect gathers sticks, it must carry them along. And like the Dung insect, I am cursed to roll it, over and over like the energizer bunny. Joluo, hear me out, I ask. Like ‘Simba’ The lion cub which must be chased by the king of the pride when it is a teenager in order for it to become a man, I castigated Dr. Abonyo and successfully kept him in the wilderness. Now he has become his own man and is coming back to chase away the old lion and claim his position as King! In the beginning, before I even knew him, he defied the odds and got what most of us have tried but cannot achieve – a PhD. Then, as he was growing up, he was not a darling like Miguna, but the fiercest RAO critic. Read his old posts in Jambo Public Eye Group and in Jaluo.com. I mean he dared to tell RAO, “You will never become president, just like your father Jaramogi.” Next, he teamed up with the most extreme to brand Luos as ‘sycophants’ following RAO blindly. And to prove his point, he is one of the few who not only went against RAO, but opposed the constitution, and petitioned the court to deny us Katiba, just so he gets the the right notoriety. Well, he got the bad notoriety and certainly, it backfired on him. Yet he had to make good out of it. After tasting notoriety however bad, professorship tasted like ‘Sukuma Wiki.’Like the heat seeking missile Dr. Abonyo wanted red meat (The Presidency)! To get it, he has seen a super highway called Kisumu Governorship. Dr. Abonyo figured he has no money nor any supporters to win this elections. He is also too far away detached to campaign effectively and his sycophants are not even Kenyan: Brooklyn, Cerise, Kellog. But I tell you all, what he has is something many of us do not have, but which is pleasing to RAO. A Nu killer weapon called PhD to boot and to dish! Why? As a thinker & respected researcher, Dr Abonyo figured that many have in one way or another got RAO’s blessings during elections and they made it. Come on, lets be honest; Shabir, Jakoyo, Oburu, Orengo, Olago, Kajuang’ all made it because they found favor in RAO. Without money, and votes, what could Dr. Abonyo do to find favor in RAO? Aha! A Nu killer weapon called PhD to boot and to dish! And so, lets be happy, RAO will become ‘Ajuoga’ as soon as end of this month, and Dr Abonyo could become our next Kisumo Governor. And so, whether RAO becomes the next president of Kenya or not, we will have a younger and bright politician in Dr. Abonyo to hold on to. One whom we can field on in the future presidential game. Though I lost control of it, it has been my project all along. And yes, wether or not he has built his “Simba” or house, he is genuinely Ja Nyando not Jorabolo’s project. So please Jokisumo, embrace him for me. It shall be well. It was a dream given to me by my 10th great grandfather Ragem.

Jokisumo, bed uru mos.

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I am Joram, You Are Not.

Yes, Joram Kaulikazi Ragem, wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem (You may be my relative, but it matters less now. This is New Kenya!)